THIS IS MY SECOND performance for Cedisol (Centre sur la diversité culturelle et les pratiques solidaires).

   The previous one, I did in 2006 when I was only a visitor to Canada.

   Like that one, this performance tries to say something about immigrants.

   More directly, about the contribution they or we make to Canada or a Canadian identity.

   This time, however, the tone is more interrogative than simply declarative.

   As with many of my performances, there is an interactive element to this one.

   I distributed sheets of paper that asked on one side: we dream, sweat and toil, only to become canadian soil? / on rêve, on sue, on bûche et à la fin on devient de terraue canadien?

   On the other side, the audience was asked to write: my contribution to Canada / mon apport à la société canadienne . . . and lines for filling up with the appropriate information.

   After gathering these sheets I spread them on the maple leaf that is the central image in the Canadian flag, that I had painted on a canvas sheet while the audience was filling up their sheets.

   I laid on my back on these, then draped a Philippine flag over my face.

   Wherever your final home is, when you go, what do you leave behind?